The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These observations are from a particular type of A/B test that Netflix runs called a software canary or regression-driven experiment. Netflix also performs canary tests — software A/B tests between current and newer software versions. Strictly control false positive (false alarm) probabilities.

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J. Paul Reed

MARCH 14, 2019

The 737Max and Why Software Engineers Might Want to Pay Attention As someone with a bit of a reputation for talking about aviation and software development and operations , I’ve been asked about the 737Max repeatedly over the past week. This is more about the facts we know right now and what it means for our industry.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Platform engineering is on the rise. According to leading analyst firm Gartner, “80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams as internal providers of reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery…” by 2026. Open source logs and metrics take precedence in the monitoring process.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. When an incident occurs, developers need to know what data to look at, where the incident occurred, and other relevant metrics. “Then, I add a breakpoint.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

As a result, site reliability has emerged as a critical success metric for many organizations. Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. However, cloud complexity has made software delivery challenging. availability.

Best Practices 230

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DZone

MAY 15, 2020

Now that you’ve deployed your code, it’s time to monitor it, collect data, and analyze your metrics. You’ve just released your new app into the wild, live in production. Your job is done, right? Without application performance monitoring in place, you can’t accurately determine how well things are going. Are people using your app?

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DZone

MARCH 13, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering expertise to DevOps and operations problems. Service level indicators (SLIs) are the key measurements and metrics to determine the availability of a system.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. Moreover, it takes an average of nine hours for a software engineer to remediate a problem within a production application.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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MARCH 19, 2019

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Shape the future of software in your industry. Shape the future of software in your industry. Why engineers are joining the Software Buyers Council: 1) Make a big impact.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle. Check out the following use cases to learn how to drive innovation from development to production efficiently and securely with platform engineering observability. Real-time detection for fast remediation.

Engineering 190

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To overcome this hurdle, the panelists recommended that engineers communicate the value of SRE to higher-level executives through business data. These small wins, such as implementing a blameless root cause analysis process, can take many forms and don’t necessarily involve numerical metrics.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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MARCH 5, 2019

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Software 116

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

Each time you create an SLO in Dynatrace, you will have four generated metrics. You can use the status metric as a reference for the global SLO. Global SLO service management in Dynatrace Building a global SLO service for a complex service can be as complex as you decide. Applying weights to an individual SLO can help to build it.

Mobile 189

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. While software decoders enable AV1 playback for more powerful devices, a majority of Netflix members enjoy their favorite shows on TVs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Details pertaining to HDR-VMAF exceed the scope of this article and will be covered in a future blog post; for now, suffice it to say that the first version of HDR-VMAF landed internally in 2021 and we have been improving the metric ever since. The arrival of HDR-VMAF allowed us to create HDR streams with DO applied, i.e., HDR-DO encodes.

Open Source 252

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

But, as Justin Scherer, senior software engineer from Northwestern Mutual found, OpenTelemetry by itself is not a panacea. Based on the W3C open standard Trace Context , OpenTelemetry standardizes telemetry data from multiple sources, so organizations have the capacity to deeply analyze software behavior and performance.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

According to recent Dynatrace research , organizations expect to make software updates 58% more frequently in the coming year. DevOps and DevSecOps practices help organizations release software faster and more frequently, paving the way for digital transformation. Site reliability engineers, or SREs, lead these efforts.

DevOps 206

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based “It’s quite a big scale,” said an engineer at the financial services group. Seamless integration. ” Watch session now!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2022

Software engineer Taras Tsugrii of Meta (formerly Facebook) paid Keptn a high compliment, saying it feels like a reference implementation of Google’s SRE principles , which are the search giant’s techniques for ensuring the integrity of its sites and services. SLOs are a great way to define what software should do.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With the arrival of this release candidate (RC), the community’s focus now shifts to providing tracing RC component releases, as well as producing a metrics specification RC. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5 years ago.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Like general observability , AWS observability is the capacity to measure the current state of your AWS environment based on the data it generates, including its logs, metrics, and traces. And why it matters. As a result, various application performance and security problems can go unnoticed absent sufficient monitoring.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

A Type-M error occurs when, given that we observe a statistically-significant result, the size of the estimated metric movement is magnified (or exaggerated) relative to the truth. We’ve run many tests in this area and use the distribution of metric movements from past tests as an additional input to the analysis. Sensitivity analysis.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Here is a shortlist to get you started.

Performance 248

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2020

OneAgent gives you all the operational and business performance metrics you need, from the front end to the back end and everything in between—cloud instances, hosts, network health, processes, and services. But what if a particular metric is crucial for your monitoring needs and it isn’t there?

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ A really interesting thing happens when you go from developing a Software 1.0 (i.e., In Software 1.0

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Warehousing Modernization Enabling Team (an AMET) has been established to guide modernization in the Warehousing domain, which consists of 100+ software engineers and a monolithic codebase. Roadmap The roadmap is a tool for planning and communicating progress toward the targets and metrics.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

A single pane of glass to view trace information along with AWS CloudWatch metrics. See your AWS serverless workloads in full context with customer experience and business outcome metrics. – Robert Trueman, Head of Software Engineering at CDL. trace information along with AWS CloudWatch metrics. at all times?

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High Scalability

JANUARY 8, 2019

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The first was that there were too many security things that each software team needed to think about?—?things Every leader’s security risk dashboard now includes a Wall-E adoption metric, and roughly ? Julia & Patrick (Netflix Application Security): In deciding how to address this, we focused on two observations.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 207

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Get visibility into your production issues without juggling multiple tabs and different services -- all of your logs, server metrics and alerts are in your browser and at your fingertips.

Java 125

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High Scalability

JUNE 19, 2018

Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring platform that combines infrastructure metrics, distributed traces, and logs all in one place. Who's Hiring? Apply here. Need excellent people?

Metrics 125

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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